“He is not black nor anything like it, and we shall be surprised if he is the darkest member in the new House of Commons.”

— Dadabhai Naoroji

Critical comment in India by The Amrita Bazaar Patrika, page=5.
About Dadabhai, Narrow-majority’ and ‘Bow-and-agree’: Public Attitudes Towards the Elections of the First Asian MPs in Britain, Dadabhai Naoroji and Mancherjee Merwanjee Bhownaggree, 1885-1906

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Indian politician 1825–1917

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